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Re:Why it took a long time to build the tiny link preview on... by fapjacks on Monday April 23, 2018 @08:01AM (#16902610)
Oh, yes, SO's hot network questions is a hardcore distraction for me, too. Even for things I really don't care about! Like all those workplace drama questions (do so many people really think going to HR is going to do them any good at all?). The extension you linked is a very interesting concept, something I hadn't thought about using before. But I like the idea of paying a little bit of thought up front to help keep things from exploding down the line. Thanks!
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Re:Why it took a long time to build the tiny link preview on... by baud147258 on Monday April 23, 2018 @10:33AM (#16903698)
SO's hot network questions was so bad that I enabled my ad-blocker on SO and added a custom rule to hide that part of the page. At least now when I go to find an answer on SO without falling in a 30-60 min rabbit hole.
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Re:Why it took a long time to build the tiny link preview on... by pimlottc on Monday April 23, 2018 @11:03AM (#16903991)
Please post this rule, it would be very helpful.

What’s frustrating is that this has been brought up as an issue on StackExchange and rejected as WONTFIX.

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Re:Why it took a long time to build the tiny link preview on... by baud147258 on Monday April 23, 2018 @11:25AM (#16904218)
I'm using uBlock origin. The rule is:

  stackoverflow.com###hot-network-questions
I've used the selector tool of uBlock to do it.

Edit: more on this: https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/222721. Linked in one of the answer is an extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/sidebaroverflow/lh...

There are also other solutions on that page.

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Re:Why it took a long time to build the tiny link preview on... by Roujo on Monday April 23, 2018 @11:25AM (#16904223)
These rules work for me, using uBlock Origin:

    stackoverflow.com###hot-network-questions
    stackoverflow.com###feed-link
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Re:Why it took a long time to build the tiny link preview on... by jgtrosh on Monday April 23, 2018 @09:19AM (#16903131)
The extremist view in this sense is that tabs in general are a bad model for navigation. If all the pages you choose to visit are first-level citizens in your environment (windows) then you think about them more actively. A browser like https://surf.suckless.org simplifies the browser abstraction well in these regards. I have found it is nearly impossible to get common browsers to work without tabs. This kind of endeavour probably begets a correct window manager like https://i3wm.org
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Re:Why it took a long time to build the tiny link preview on... by kqr on Tuesday April 24, 2018 @03:26AM (#16910612)
I strongly agree. I had to stop using Surf because of its ancient rendering engine which butchers a lot of the sensible parts of the modern web, but I do miss the tabless part of it.

Edit: Also because it does not have Pentadactyl. My dream browser would be tabless and with sensible and powerful Vim bindings. Ideally built on an engine of Common Lisp too...

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Re:Why it took a long time to build the tiny link preview on... by jgtrosh on Tuesday April 24, 2018 @06:58AM (#16911476)
Have you looked at luakit? It's also based on webkit2gtk but it's extensible with Lua; I love the simplicity of suckless tools but when a functionality that seems good must be patched in it rarely ends well.

Also regarding Vi keybindings check out vimb maybe?

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Re:Why it took a long time to build the tiny link preview on... by icc97 on Monday April 23, 2018 @10:44AM (#16903799)
> Like all those workplace drama questions

They're like a soap opera for geeks

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Re:Why it took a long time to build the tiny link preview on... by failrate on Tuesday April 24, 2018 @12:18AM (#16909814)
Omg, do you remember the milk boiled in electric kettle incident? That's the only time I've seen something get posted to Workplace and then have follow up questions go to (iirc) Interpersonal Skills and then Physics.
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